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Need some colour
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Summer memories
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Nicotiana (Tobacco Plant)
Potentilla nepalensis, 'Miss Wilmott'
Delicate Cornflower
Longing for Poppy time
Harvestman
Allium up close
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A touch of blue
Monkeyflower / Mimulus
A welcome splash of red
Old Puffballs
The joy of spring
Beautiful Hellebore
Blossom
Signs of spring
Blossom - pretty in pink
Pasqueflower / Pulsatilla vulgaris
Double Bloodroot / Sanguinaria canadensis f. multi…
Siberian Bugloss / Brunnera macrophylla
Like the sun on a grey, gloomy, rainy day
Yellow and red
Elephant's ears / Bergenia cordifolia
The beauty of an invasive weed
Himalayan Blue Poppy
Almost as good as sunshine
The beauty of Irises
Globeflower / Trollius chinensis
The beauty of Alliums
Tulipa turkestanica
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Teasel macro
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A favourite flower
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Soft pink
For yet another snowy day
Columbine
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Loving the sunlight
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Common Barberry, Berberis vulgaris
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-30C windchill ... need colour!
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The classic Echinacea shot
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Can't wait for summer
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Lilium pardalinum
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Looking almost unreal
Colour on this winter wonderland day
Scabious
The joy of colour
Pink
A couple of beauties
We need COLOUR!
Time for colour
Love a splash of orange
Campanula incurva
Persian Cornflower / Centaurea dealbata
How can a flower be so perfect?
Motherwort / Leonurus cardiaca
Purity
Purple beauty
Waiting for the first snowy day
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Showy lady's-slipper
Photographed this beautiful Pink or Showy lady's-slipper (Cypripedium reginae) yesterday, 2 July 2014, when I called in at the Reader Rock Garden on my way home from a volunteer shift. Unfortunately, this beautiful orchid is not native to Alberta.
"The Showy Lady's-slipper (Cypripedium reginae), also known as the Pink-and-white Lady's-slipper or the Queen's Lady's-slipper, is a rare terrestrial temperate lady's-slipper orchid native to northern North America.
Despite producing a large amount of seeds per seed pod, it reproduces largely by vegetative reproduction, and remains restricted to the North East region of the United States and south east regions of Canada. Although never common, this rare plant has vanished from much of its historical range due to habitat loss. It has been a subject of horticultural interest for many years with Charles Darwin who like many, were unsuccessful in cultivating the plant.
The plant became the state flower of Minnesota in 1902 and was protected by state law in 1925. It is illegal to pick or uproot a Showy Lady's-slipper flower in Minnesota.
Although this plant was chosen as the provincial flower for Prince Edward Island in 1947, it is so rare on the island that another Lady's-slipper, C. acaule (moccasin flower or pink lady slipper), has replaced it as the province's floral emblem." From Wikipedia.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cypripedium_reginae
The famous, annual Calgary Stampede begins tomorrow, with the Stampede Parade taking place in the morning. William Shatner (from Star Trek) is our Parade Marshall. No worries about the weather, as it's a beautiful, sunny day today and tomorrow is supposed to be good, too.
"The Showy Lady's-slipper (Cypripedium reginae), also known as the Pink-and-white Lady's-slipper or the Queen's Lady's-slipper, is a rare terrestrial temperate lady's-slipper orchid native to northern North America.
Despite producing a large amount of seeds per seed pod, it reproduces largely by vegetative reproduction, and remains restricted to the North East region of the United States and south east regions of Canada. Although never common, this rare plant has vanished from much of its historical range due to habitat loss. It has been a subject of horticultural interest for many years with Charles Darwin who like many, were unsuccessful in cultivating the plant.
The plant became the state flower of Minnesota in 1902 and was protected by state law in 1925. It is illegal to pick or uproot a Showy Lady's-slipper flower in Minnesota.
Although this plant was chosen as the provincial flower for Prince Edward Island in 1947, it is so rare on the island that another Lady's-slipper, C. acaule (moccasin flower or pink lady slipper), has replaced it as the province's floral emblem." From Wikipedia.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cypripedium_reginae
The famous, annual Calgary Stampede begins tomorrow, with the Stampede Parade taking place in the morning. William Shatner (from Star Trek) is our Parade Marshall. No worries about the weather, as it's a beautiful, sunny day today and tomorrow is supposed to be good, too.
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